Renoir, My Father Introduction - The New York Review of Books
Renoir, My Father Introduction - The New York Review of Books
Renoir, My Father Introduction - The New York Review of Books
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NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS<br />
CLASSICS<br />
RENOIR, MY FATHER<br />
JEAN RENOIR (1894–1979), the son <strong>of</strong> the painter Auguste<br />
<strong>Renoir</strong>, was born in Paris, grew up in the south <strong>of</strong> France,<br />
and served as a cavalryman and pilot during World War I. He<br />
directed his first film, La Fille de l’eau, in 1925 and followed it<br />
with many others, including his masterpieces Grand Illusion<br />
(1937) and <strong>The</strong> Rules <strong>of</strong> the Game (1939). In 1975 Jean <strong>Renoir</strong><br />
received an Academy Award for his lifetime contribution to<br />
the cinema.<br />
ROBERT L. HERBERT, after a long career at Yale, is now Andrew<br />
W. Mellon Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Emeritus <strong>of</strong> Humanities at Mount Holyoke.<br />
He is a member <strong>of</strong> the American Academy <strong>of</strong> Arts and Sciences<br />
and the American Philosophical Society, and has been named<br />
Officier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French<br />
Government. Among his books are Impressionism: Art, Leisure<br />
and Parisian Society, Nature’s Workshop: <strong>Renoir</strong>’s Writings on<br />
the Decorative Arts, and Seurat: Drawings and Paintings.
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